History

London Metropolitan University was created on 1 August 2002 by the merger of London Guildhall University (now London City campus) and the University of North London (now London North campus). Prior to the merger both institutions had long histories of providing quality education in the City and north and east London.

The London City campus has 150 years of unbroken, though changing, and service to the educational needs of London. The roots of the education institutions in this area go back to 1848 when the then Bishop of London called upon the clergy to set up evening classes to improve the moral, intellectual and spiritual condition of young men in the metropolis. The Metropolitan Evening Classes for Young Men became the City of London College, which in 1970 merged with the Sir John Cass's College of Arts and Science to become City of London Polytechnic. The Polytechnic was later awarded university status, in 1992, and adopted the name London Guildhall University.

London North campus has developed over the past 100 years into a modern, forward-looking centre with a reputation for widening access into education. The campus began life in 1896 as the Northern Polytechnic Institute. In 1992, the Polytechnic won the right to the title of University and the ability to award its own degrees.

Involvement with Symbian

London Metropolitan University will offer a MSc Advanced Computing (Mobile Computing) course, which will introduce Symbian OS principles. This course is
supported by Symbian Academy.

Course overview

MSc mobile applications development (http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/dds/acmc/) is a course introduces the principles of Symbian OS.

University members engaged with Symbian

Dr. Yanguo Jing (http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/~yjing/)